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Telecommunications system architecture

  • US 5,999,614 A
  • Filed: 12/23/1996
  • Issued: 12/07/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/23/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of forming a plurality of communication switches into a communication network to forward a call from a calling station to a called station comprising the steps offorming said plurality of communication switches into respective groups of communication switches,interconnecting the communication switches forming a respective group of switches,connecting each of the communication switches forming a respective one of said groups of communications switches to individual other ones of said groups of telecommunication switches as a way of interconnecting said groups of telecommunication switches with one another,associating each of said groups of communications switches with a unique identifier as a way of accessing said unique identifier from a data bass using said called telephone number for a particular one of said groups serving as a destination point in said communications network for calls placed to that telephone number,responsive to receiving said call at said communications network, forwarding said call to said particular one of said groups, andforwarding said call to said called station via said particular one of said groups.

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